The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31
THE rOOTHSOME QUAIL.
There Is No Reason Why n Man Should
Not Eat 1t Perennially.

There Is NO reason why q MAN ShOuAu
Not Eat 1t Perennially.
Eating matches and other gormand-
izing exhibitions are now the rage.
To give the subject interest tor sclen-
tific men, a reporter called on DR..
Hammond, whose achievements while
Surgeon-Genera of the army have
made him illustrious in his profession.
There is no reason in the world, "
the doctor said, ''why a man should
not eat twenty quail in twenty days,
or one hundred quail in ono hundred
days. Uhless a man has precon-
ceivcd notion that it will make him
ill. there is nothing in the feat to pre-
vent his eating the birds. This
talk about the impossibility Of
eating a pigeon day for thirty
or fifty days is all Imagination.
Nothing but mental disturbance can
affect the stomach and prevent its ac-
ton in such case. Any man can
walk on board laid down in his
back yard, but raise the board fifty
feet high into space, and, no matter
how solid it may be. one man out of
ten can not walk it. Yet the muscles
and physical powers are just as strong
in mid air as on the ground. What
prevents man walking the plank?
Simply fear acting upon his imagina-
ton. So it is when n man begins eat
ing bird day for twenty days. He
has heard that it is impossible, and the
fear of failure exci!es his stomach and
makes him sick.
Il will agree" said the doctor, with
a twinkle in his eye. to eat one hun
dred quail in one hundred days for one
thousand dollars q quail and I'll win
the money.
Think how absurd these stories are!
Sailors cat salt pork, pound day.
for one thousand days; and what is
worse than sailors pork?
But it is said that game is more
difficult to eat rs steady diet than
beef or bacon. This Is another fallacy.
remember. years ago, in Fremont's
days, that l ate prairie chicken every
day for months. was attached to an
engineer corps IN the army rs medic
al officer. and went with the first
party from Fort Riley, in Kansas, 10
Bridger's Pass in the Rocky Mount
aims, a distance of some one thousand
two hundred miles. We were eighty
or ninety days in making the journey,
and our mission was to construct q
military road over that great distance
into the mountains. We had moth
ing to eat but prairie chickens
for two months. As l said be-
fore. l ate a bird every morning
for breakfast, and was glad TO get
it. We lived on this diet until we
crossed the North Platte river. When
near Cheyenne we had nothing but
sage hens. If there is any thing worse
than sage hens I'd like to see it. They
smell and taste of sage brush and they
are as tough as mules. For several
weeks we lived on sage hens and didn't
get sick either. When we reached the
Black Hills we changed off to mount
ain grouse-had them every day,
morning noon and night and only
felt i'll when the supply ran out.
Every physician laughs at the idea
of man not being able to eat the
same article of food for twenty days.
The statement is refuted in our own
household. 1 eat two eggs every
morning, and have done it for eighteen
months. Idon't look much like a sick
man. do IP'-M Y Herald